Astrophysics

Authors and titles for June 2000

[1] arXiv:astro-ph/0006001 [pdf, other]

Title: Chemical composition of evolved stars in the open cluster M 67

G. Tautvaisiene (1), B. Edvardsson (2), I. Tuominen (3), I. Ilyin (3) ((1) Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy, Vilnius, Lithuania, (2) Uppsala Astronomical Observatory, Sweden, (3) Astronomy Division, Dept. of Physical Sciences, University of Oulu, Finland)

Comments: 11 pages, 7 enclosed figures, accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics, typos changed: two "dex" removed

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 360 (2000) 499

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[2] arXiv:astro-ph/0006002 [pdf, other]

Title: Quasistellar Objects: Intervening Absorption Lines

Jane C. Charlton, Christopher W. Churchill

Comments: 15 pages, 9 figures; Written for the Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics (to be published in 2000 by Mac Millan and the Institute of Physics Publishing)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[3] arXiv:astro-ph/0006003 [pdf, other]

Title: The FIRST Sample of Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies at High Redshift I. Sample and Near-IR Morphologies

S. A. Stanford (UCD/LLNL), Daniel Stern (UCB/JPL), Wil van Breugel (LLNL), Carlos De Breuck (Leiden/LLNL)

Comments: 22 pages. Figures 1,2,4 and 5 included in-line, figure 3 as 54 gifs. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.Suppl. 131 (2000) 185-222

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[4] arXiv:astro-ph/0006004 [pdf, other]

Title: Possible Evidence for a Truncated Thin Disk in Seyfert 1 Galaxy NGC4593

Youjun Lu, Tinggui Wang (USTC)

Comments: 5 pages, including 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL

Journal-ref: 2000, ApJL, 537:103-106

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[5] arXiv:astro-ph/0006005 [pdf, other]

Title: The IRAS view of the Local Universe

Will Saunders, Kenton D'Mellow, Helen Valentine, Brent Tully, Esperanza Carrasco, Bahram Mobasher, Steve Maddox, George Hau, Will Sutherland, Dave Clements, Lister Staveley-Smith

Comments: 10 pages. To appear in 'The Hidden Universe', procs Guanajuarto conference 2/00, ASP Conference series, eds R.C. Kraan-Korteweg, P.A. Henning and H. Andernach

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[6] arXiv:astro-ph/0006006 [pdf, other]

Title: Dwarf galaxy formation induced by galaxy interactions

T. Okazaki, Y. Taniguchi (Tohoku University)

Comments: 9 pages (including 1 figure), To appear in ApJ, 543 (Part 1) Nov 1, 2000 (ApJ volume Nr was wrong in the previous version) lume

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[7] arXiv:astro-ph/0006007 [pdf, other]

Title: UV Background-Induced Bifurcation of the Galactic Morphology

Hajime Susa, Masayuki Umemura

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 316 (2000) L17

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[8] arXiv:astro-ph/0006008 [pdf, other]

Title: A Survey for Faint Stars of Large Proper Motion Using Extra Poss II Plates

David G. Monet (U.S. Naval Obs.), Matthew D. Fisher, James Liebert (Univ. Arizona), Blaise Canzian, Hugh C. Harris (U.S. Naval Obs.), I. Neill Reid (Univ. Pennsylvania)

Comments: Astronomical Journal, in press, 16 pages, 3 figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[9] arXiv:astro-ph/0006009 [pdf, other]

Title: Infrared Properties of SiO Maser Sources in Late-Type Stars

M. Matsuura (1 and 2), I. Yamamura (3 and 1), H. Murakami (1), T. Onaka (2), T. Ootsubo (2), T. Tohya (1 and 2), Y. Okamura (1 and 2), M. M. Freund (1 and 4), Masahiro Tanaka (1) ((1) ISAS, Japan (2) University of Tokyo, Japan (3) University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands (5) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA)

Comments: 26 pages with 6 figures, accepted for PASJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[10] arXiv:astro-ph/0006010 [pdf, other]

Title: Turbulent Molecular Cloud Cores: Rotational Properties

Andreas Burkert (MPIA, Heidelberg), Peter Bodenheimer (Lick, Santa Cruz)

Comments: 23 pages, 7 figures, Astrophysical Journal, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[11] arXiv:astro-ph/0006011 [pdf, other]

Title: Magnetic collimation of the solar and stellar winds

K. Tsinganos, S. Bogovalov

Comments: 15 pages, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Journal-ref: Astron. Astroph., 2000, 356, 989 - 1002

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[12] arXiv:astro-ph/0006012 [pdf, other]

Title: The Dark and Luminous Matter coupling in the formation of spheroids: a SPH investigation

Cesario Lia (SISSA), Giovanni Carraro (Padova), Paolo Salucci (SISSA)

Comments: 10 pages, 10 figures, accepted for pubblication in Astronomy and Astrophysics Main Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[13] arXiv:astro-ph/0006013 [pdf, other]

Title: Comment on ``Violation of the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin Cutoff: A Tempest in a (Magnetic) Teapot? Why Cosmic Ray Energies above $10^{20}$ eV May Not Require New Physics''

Arnon Dar

Comments: Submitted to PRL/comments

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[14] arXiv:astro-ph/0006014 [pdf, other]

Title: BeppoSAX - ROSAT PSPC observations of the Shapley Supercluster: A3562

S. Ettori, S. Bardelli, S. De Grandi, S. Molendi, G. Zamorani, E. Zucca

Comments: 11 pages. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.318:239,2000

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[15] arXiv:astro-ph/0006015 [pdf, other]

Title: Solar cycle induced variations in GONG p-mode frequencies and splittings

Kiran Jain, S.C. Tripathy, A. Bhatnagar (USO)

Comments: Uses aastex, To appear in Astrophysical Journal, October 10, 2000 issue

Journal-ref: Ap. J. 2001, 542, 521

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[16] arXiv:astro-ph/0006016 [pdf, other]

Title: The Formation of Stellar Clusters: Gaussian Initial Conditions II

Ralf Klessen (1,2), Andreas Burkert (2) ((1) Sterrewacht Leiden (2) Max Planck Institute for Astronomy Heidelberg)

Comments: 29 pages including 6 resolution reduced figures, minor revisions, scheduled for publication in ApJ, volume 549, March 1. 2001 (full resolution version available at this http URL)

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 549 (2001) 386-401

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[17] arXiv:astro-ph/0006017 [pdf, other]

Title: Characterizing the non-linear growth of large-scale structure in the Universe

Peter Coles, Lung-Yih Chiang

Comments: Accepted for publication in Nature. For high-resolution Figure 3, please see this http URL, For the animations and the idea of this paper please see this http URL

Journal-ref: Nature 406 (2000) 376-378

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[18] arXiv:astro-ph/0006018 [pdf, other]

Title: The Rotation Curve of the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Implications for Microlensing

David R. Alves (STScI), Cailin A. Nelson (UCB/LLNL)

Comments: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, 40 pages, 9 figures

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J.542:789-803,2000

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[19] arXiv:astro-ph/0006019 [pdf, other]

Title: The density of extremely red objects around high-z radio-loud AGN

A. Cimatti (Arcetri), D. Villani (Firenze), L. Pozzetti (Arcetri), S. di Serego Alighieri (Arcetri)

Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures, MNRAS, in press

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 318 (2000) 453

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[20] arXiv:astro-ph/0006020 [pdf, other]

Title: Initial conditions for hybrid inflation

Luis E Mendes, Andrew R Liddle

Comments: 6 pages RevTeX file with four figures incorporated (uses RevTeX and epsf). Updates to match accepted version

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D62 (2000) 103511

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[21] arXiv:astro-ph/0006021 [pdf, other]

Title: What if pulsars are born as strange stars?

R.X. Xu (PKU), Bing Zhang (NASA), G.J. Qiao (PKU)

Comments: 31 pages in Latex. Accepted by AstroParticle Physics

Journal-ref: Astropart.Phys.15:101-120,2001

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[22] arXiv:astro-ph/0006022 [pdf, other]

Title: The Space Density of low redshift AGN

D.Londish, B.J.Boyle, D.J.Schade

Comments: MNRAS accepted (6 pages, 6 figures)

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 318 (2000) 411

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[23] arXiv:astro-ph/0006023 [pdf, other]

Title: Ionization, Kinematics, and Extent of the Diffuse Ionized Gas Halo of NGC 5775

Richard J. Rand

Comments: figures 1, 2a-d and 3 included. ApJ Letters, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[24] arXiv:astro-ph/0006024 [pdf, other]

Title: A Further Analysis of a Cosmological Model of Quintessence and Scalar Dark Matter

T. Matos, L. A. Urena-Lopez (CINVESTAV)

Comments: 11 pages REVTeX, 6 eps color figures. More information at this http URL. Revised version. New results added and changes made in response to referee comments

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D63 (2001) 063506

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[25] arXiv:astro-ph/0006025 [pdf, other]

Title: Infrared interferometric observations of young stellar objects

R.L. Akeson, D.R. Ciardi, G.T. van Belle, M.J. Creech-Eakman, E.A. Lada

Comments: 11 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the Astrophysical Journal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[26] arXiv:astro-ph/0006026 [pdf, other]

Title: HIIphot: Automated Photometry of HII Regions Applied to M51

David A. Thilker (1 and 2), Robert Braun (3), Rene A.M. Walterbos (1) ((1) NMSU, (2) NRAO, (3) NFRA)

Comments: 41 pages, 14 figures, Postscript version with high-resolution figures at this ftp URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[27] arXiv:astro-ph/0006027 [pdf, other]

Title: High Energy Neutrinos from Gamma Ray Bursts: Event Rates in Neutrino Telescopes

J. Alvarez-Muniz, F. Halzen, D. W. Hooper

Comments: 19 pages, Latex2.09, uses this http URL, 7 postscript figures. Version to be published in Phys. Rev. D

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D62 (2000) 093015

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[28] arXiv:astro-ph/0006028 [pdf, other]

Title: Crust-core coupling and r-mode damping in neutron stars: a toy model

Yuri Levin (UC Berkeley), Greg Ushomirsky (Caltech)

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures, submitted to MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 324 (2001) 917

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[29] arXiv:astro-ph/0006029 [pdf, other]

Title: Young Circumstellar Disks Near Evolved Massive Stars and Supernovae

Roger A. Chevalier

Comments: 9 pages, ApJL, submitted

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[30] arXiv:astro-ph/0006030 [pdf, other]

Title: Implications of the X-Ray Properties of Pulsar Nebulae

Roger A. Chevalier

Comments: 10 pages, ApJL, submitted

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[31] arXiv:astro-ph/0006031 [pdf, other]

Title: Gone with the wind: the origin of S0 galaxies in clusters

Vicent Quilis, Ben Moore, Richard Bower (Univ. of Durham)

Comments: 11 pages, 4 figures. Further simulation details and movies at this http URL

Journal-ref: Science 288 (2000) 1617-1620

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[32] arXiv:astro-ph/0006032 [pdf, other]

Title: Galactosynthesis: Halo Histories, Star Formation, and Disks

Ari Buchalter (Caltech), Raul Jimenez (IfA, Edinburgh), Marc Kamionkowski (Caltech)

Comments: Submitted to MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 322 (2001) 43

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[33] arXiv:astro-ph/0006033 [pdf, other]

Title: The White Dwarf Cooling Age of the Open Cluster NGC 2420

Ted von Hippel (Gemini Observatory), Gerard Gilmore (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

Comments: 24 pages, latex + 8 postscript figures, to be published in AJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[34] arXiv:astro-ph/0006034 [pdf, other]

Title: ASCA Observation of the Crab-Like Supernova Remnant 3C58

Ken'ichi Torii, Patrick O. Slane, Kenzo Kinugasa, Kiyoshi Hashimotodani, Hiroshi Tsunemi

Comments: 27 pages, 7 figures, to appear in PASJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[35] arXiv:astro-ph/0006035 [pdf, other]

Title: Magnetic Field Evolution of Accreting Neutron Stars IV - Effect of the Curvature of Space-Time

Sushan Konar (IUCAA, Pune)

Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures, LaTeX (this http URL), references updated, 1 figure added, text substantially modified, final version to be published in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 333 (2002) 475

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[36] arXiv:astro-ph/0006036 [pdf, other]

Title: Equilibrium configurations of relativistic White Dwarfs

G. Bertone (ICRA, Rome), R. Ruffini (ICRA, Rome)

Comments: 12 pages, 4 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the 3rd Icra Network Workshop, this http URL and this http URL eds., SIF 2000

Journal-ref: Nuovo Cim. B115 (2000) 935-946

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[37] arXiv:astro-ph/0006037 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Critical Mass: the case of white dwarfs

Remo J. Ruffini (ICRA, Rome)

Comments: 11 pages, 2 figures, to appear in "Exploring the Universe", a Festschrift in honour of Riccardo Giacconi, H. Gursky, R. Ruffini and L. Stella eds., World Scientific, Singapore, 2000

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[38] arXiv:astro-ph/0006038 [pdf, other]

Title: Formation of a tidal dwarf galaxy in the interacting system Arp 245 (NGC 2992/93)

P.-A. Duc, E. Brinks, V. Springel, B. Pichardo, P. Weilbacher, I.F. Mirabel

Comments: 43 pages, 20 figures, Astronomical Journal, in press

Journal-ref: Astron.J.120:1238-1264,2000

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[39] arXiv:astro-ph/0006039 [pdf, other]

Title: FUSE Observations of the HD Molecule toward HD 73882

R. Ferlet, M. Andre, G. Hebrard, A. Lecavelier-des-Etangs, M. Lemoine, G. Pineau-des-Forets, E. Roueff, B. Rachford, J. M. Shull, T. P. Snow, J. Tumlinson, A. Vidal-Madjar, D. G. York, H. W. Moos

Comments: 4 pages + 4 .ps figures. This paper will appear in a special issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters devoted to the first scientific results from the FUSE mission

Journal-ref: ApJ 538 (2000) L69

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[40] arXiv:astro-ph/0006040 [pdf, other]

Title: Reconstructing PSCz with a Generalised PIZA

Helen Valentine, Will Saunders, Andy Taylor (IfA, Edinburgh)

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to MNRAS

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[41] arXiv:astro-ph/0006041 [pdf, other]

Title: Measuring Supernova Neutrino Temperatures using Lead Perchlorate

S. R. Elliott

Comments: minor changes, reference update

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.C62:065802,2000

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[42] arXiv:astro-ph/0006042 [pdf, other]

Title: Time Domain Analysis of Variability in Cygnus X-1: Constraints on the Emission Models

Thomas J. Maccarone (Yale University), Paolo S. Coppi (Yale University), Juri Poutanen (Stockholm Observatory)

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted to Astrophysical Journal Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[43] arXiv:astro-ph/0006043 [pdf, other]

Title: Digital Sky Surveys: Software Tools and Technologies

S. George Djorgovski, Robert J. Brunner (Department of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology)

Comments: 8 pages, 1 figure; Written for the Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics (to be published in 2000 by Mac Millan and the Institute of Physics Publishing)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[44] arXiv:astro-ph/0006044 [pdf, other]

Title: Surveys for z > 3 Damped Lyman-alpha Absorption Systems

Lisa J. Storrie-Lombardi, Arthur M. Wolfe

Comments: 46 pages, including 15 figures and 9 tables, to appear in ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 543 (2000) 552-576; Erratum-ibid. 592 (2003) 1263-1263

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[45] arXiv:astro-ph/0006045 [pdf, other]

Title: Energetic particle acceleration in a 3D magnetic field reconnection model: a role of MHD turbulence

Tomasz Kobak, Michal Ostrowski (Astronomical Observatory of Jagiellonian University)

Comments: 6 pages, 6 figures, MNRAS - accepted

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 317 (2000) 973

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[46] arXiv:astro-ph/0006046 [pdf, other]

Title: Analysis of Four A-F Supergiants in M31 from Keck HIRES Spectroscopy

Kim A. Venn, J.K. McCarthy, D.J. Lennon, N. Przybilla, R.P. Kudritzki, M. Lemke

Comments: Accepted for publication in the ApJ, October 2000 (23 pages, 4 tables, 11 figures)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[47] arXiv:astro-ph/0006047 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Relation Between Peak Luminosity and Parent Population of Type Ia Supernovae: A New Tool for Probing the Ages of Distant Galaxies

Valentin D. Ivanov, Mario Hamuy, Philip A. Pinto

Comments: 19 pages, incl. 3 tables & 3 figures; to appear in Nov 2000 issue of ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[48] arXiv:astro-ph/0006048 [pdf, other]

Title: Dwarf Galaxy Rotation Curves and the Core Problem of Dark Matter Halos

Frank C. van den Bosch (UW), Rob A. Swaters (DTM)

Comments: 33 pages, 24 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Several small changes made plus one Figure added

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.325:1017,2001

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[49] arXiv:astro-ph/0006049 [pdf, other]

Title: Non-LTE treatment of molecules in the photospheres of cool stars

Andreas Schweitzer (1), Peter H. Hauschildt (1), E. Baron (2) ((1) University of Georgia, (2) University of Oklahoma)

Comments: AASTeX v50, 35 pages including 12 figures, accepted by ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[50] arXiv:astro-ph/0006050 [pdf, other]

Title: Magnetic field measurements in white dwarfs. Magnetic field, rotation and spectrum of 40 Eri B

S.N. Fabrika, G.G. Valyavin, T.E. Burlakova, E.A. Barsukova, D.N. Monin

Comments: 11 pages, 12 figures, "Magnetic fields of chemically peculiar and related stars", eds. Yu. V. Glagolevskij and I.I. Romanyuk, Proceed. of Intern. Meeting, Moscow, 2000 (in press), p.219

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)